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Protected for decades by their water rights, grower are suffering for the first time during this record-breaking drought. Wildlife refuges are struggling, too.
U.S. air quality has gotten better, but disparities remain
New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning.
The report leaves the door open for new leases on public land. What does that mean for the West?
“The new system confirms what we knew about the National Flood Insurance Program — which was that it’s a deeply unfair system."
Beyond the environmental impacts, a clean energy transition can provide financial and health benefits too.
Environmental regulators are "trying to do the bare minimum by throwing something through Google Translate,” one advocate said.
Kentucky's newest strategy might stop coal barons from gaming the reclamation system.
The “renewable” industry creates major emissions, destroys forests, and causes health and safety issues in low-resource communities.
